In 1911 , the physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered that atoms have a tiny, dense nucleus by shooting positively charged particles at a very thin gold foil. A key physical property which led Rutherford to use gold was that it was

  • [KVPY 2014]
  • A

    electrically conducting

  • B

    highly malleable

  • C

    shiny

  • D

    non-reactive

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Explain the Rutherford atomic model and its limitation.

The graph which depicts the results of Rutherform gold foil experiment with $\alpha$ -particales is

$\theta:$ Scattering angle

$\mathrm{Y}:$ Number of scattered $\alpha$ -particles detected

(Plots are schematic and not to scale)

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An electron makes a transition from orbit $n = 4$ to the orbit $n = 2$ of tha hydrogen atom. The wave number of the emitted radiations ($R =$ Rydberg's constant) will be

The energy of hydrogen atom in $n^{th}$ orbit is $E_n$, then the energy in $n^{th}$ orbit of singly ionised helium atom will be

According to the Rutherford’s atomic model, the electrons inside the atom are